The prime minister takes the lead in such attempt. He recently asserted that the expression of sexual slavery for the Japanese army was wrong.

Similar immoral remarks have been made by reactionaries in Japan. They downplayed the sexual slavery crime as "conduct of individual procurers" and even claimed that those women "volunteered for sexual service to earn money".

However, the crime was committed in an organized way with the direct involvement of the then government and military of Japan.

At that time the Japanese government enacted "Ordnance of women's voluntary labor" to institutionalize the sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army. Directly involved in the sexual slavery crime were Japan's Foreign Ministry, local consulates, government-general in Korea and other bodies.

The then Japanese military saw to it that all affairs related to the sexual slavery, including installation and operation of comfort centers and recruitment and control over comfort women, were handled under its directive.

Provoking the Pacific War, the military defined it as one of its important duties to give "sexual comfort" to soldiers and set up a department in charge of this affair.

The Japanese imperialists mobilized their MPs, policemen and soldiers to abduct or take away many women as sex slaves, irrespective of age and matrimony.

The facts go to prove that the women were coerced into sexual slavery by the Japanese imperialists.

The government of Japan should no longer evade its responsibility for the past crimes.